We’ve written a few times about some cacheing plugins for WordPress and I’ve learned a lot over the last year about optimizing and performancing our systems and setups.
I’ve teetered back and forth between these two cacheing plugins for WordPress:
We’ve been using the latter for a while now but on the new update to WordPress 3.0 we’ve actually moved back to the former and doing some testing on speed and user-experience. We actually had a number of complaints in regards to cacheing and not seeing updated content.
We hope we’ve fixed most of that!
Love to know your thoughts on these two (and any others)!
Also, please let us know how the 8BIT sites are handling and how your experience has been in the last few days.
See anything weird or not working?
Thanks all!
brett barner says
I personally use W3 Super Cache. I know that while using Chrome, 8Bit sites were not updated, which resulted in me hitting Ctrl+F5 when visiting.
No biggie, but this was the only website in my regular internet perusing that I’d have to do that with. However today, it’s updated without me having to do anything. Win!
Take this comment with a grain of salt, but this has been my experience.
Matthew Snider says
In my previous experience of running a movie review website, even though we had visitors of around 1 to 5k a day, the cache plugins were needed. I went from wp-cache to wp-super cache to W3 Total Cache and I must say the move was noticeable.
w3 offers integration on so many levels and the options are endless. I would recommend it to anyone. On my current site with only a few folks a day coming I don’t have it integrated as I don’t need S3 any longer. If one day I do W3 will be my go to for caching.
As per your sites here – no issues on my end since you have removed the api calls to facebook – darn work wont let us get close to FB.
PhillipGibb says
the only strange behavior I have seen has been that – sometimes I don’t see the latest posts unless I am logged in (which does not always work for me) I use FireFox and these issues predate your testing.
herbhalstead says
so.. I installed w3 at my blog yesterday…. everything looked good and speedy… last night at about 9pm, I looked in on the blog and it was totally blank… I tried for hours to get it working again and finally did a reinstall of my whole site this morning… sigh